Your birthday...

[Darknoir]

Hey, just thought this would be nice. Look on Wikipedia at your birthday.

It's best to do it in the format Month/Day

For example, mine is March 20.

Then look at what happened on your birthday. Literary things are especially relevant.

I found out, amongst other things:

Uncle TOms Cabin was published on my birthday in 1852, and Einsteins theory of relativity was published in 1916

I share my birthday with:

Ovid (43 BC)
Henrik Ibsen (1828)
Sir Michael Redgrave and Vera Lynn
Hal Linden
Spike Lee

Interesting stuff :)

[bastet]

an interesting thing to do darknoir :)
my birthday is may 7th


1348 – Charles University in Prague (Universitas Carolina/Univerzita Karlova) is established as the first university in Central Europe.

i had no idea universities were around then!

births-

a few of those born on the same day :) -

1812 – Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
1861 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1941)
1867 – Władysław Reymont, Polish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1925)
1882 – Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (d. 1960)
1943 – Peter Carey, Australian author
1946 – Michael Rosen, English children's poet

[Darknoir]

Tsu, Robert Browning? Nice :D

Oooh Michael Rosen too... :)

[Andrew]

February 14. I think I win... lol


842 – Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
1014 – Pope Benedict VIII recognizes Henry of Bavaria as King of Germany.
1076 – Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
1349 – Approximately 2,000 Jews are burned to death by mobs or forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.
1556 – Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
1778 – The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
1804 – Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
1831 – Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
1835 – The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
1843 – The event that inspired the Beatles song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! is held in England.
1849 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
1852 – Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital providing in-patient beds specifically for children in the English-speaking world, is founded in London.
1855 – Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1859 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
1879 – The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
1903 – The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor).
1912 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
1912 – In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
1918 – The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
1919 – The Polish-Soviet War begins.
1920 – The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
1924 – The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is founded.
1929 – Saint Valentine's Day massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
1942 – Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
1943 – World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
1943 – World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
1944 – World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
1945 – World War II: Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden.
1945 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relationship.
1945 – World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
1946 – The Bank of England is nationalized.
1949 – The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
1949 – The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
1950 – Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People's Liberation Army.
1956 – The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.
1961 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
1962 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
1966 – Australian currency is decimalised.
1979 – In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1981 – Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
1983 – United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher is later convicted of fraud.
1989 – Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.
1989 – Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.
1990 – 92 people are killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India.
1998 – An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil drops a lit cigarette, creating a massive explosion which kills 120.
2000 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
2004 – In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
2005 – Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
2005 – Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected Al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.
2008 – Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18 injuries.
2011 – The 2011 Bahraini uprising commenced.

[edit] Births

1468 – Johann Werner, German mathematician (d. 1522)
1483 – Babur, Moghul emperor of India (d. 1530)
1602 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (d. 1676)
1680 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (d. 1737)
1692 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (d. 1754)
1701 – Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (d. 1773)
1763 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (d. 1813)
1766 – Thomas Robert Malthus, English demographer and political economist (d. 1834)
1778 – Fernando Sor (baptized), Spanish composer (d. 1839)
1778 – Minh Mang, the second emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam (d. 1841)
1799 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Polish painter (d. 1842)
1800 – Emory Washburn, American politician and 22nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1877)
1812 – Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (d. 1846)
1818 – Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist (d. 1895)
1819 – Christopher Sholes, American inventor (d. 1890)
1824 – Winfield Scott Hancock, American Civil War general (d. 1886)
1828 – Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (d. 1885)
1838 – Margaret E. Knight, American inventor, (d. 1914)
1846 – Julian Scott, American artist and American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1901)
1847 – Anna Howard Shaw, American suffragette (d. 1919)
1847 – Queen Maria Pia of Savoy of Portugal (d. 1911)
1848 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (d. 1934)
1856 – Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (d. 1931)
1859 – George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., American engineer and inventor (d. 1896)
1860 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (d. 1954)
1869 – Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1959)
1871 – Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (d. 1959)
1884 – Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor, film director (d. 1947)
1884 – Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1952)
1884 – Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (d. 1974)
1885 – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian-born Pakistani philosopher (d. 1949)
1890 – Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (d. 1956)
1892 – Radola Gajda, Czech military commander (d. 1948)
1894 – Jack Benny, American actor and comedian (d. 1974)
1895 – Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973)
1898 – Bill Tilman, English mountaineer and explorer (d. 1977)
1898 – Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-born American physicist and astronomer (d. 1974)
1903 – Stuart Erwin, American actor (d. 1967)
1904 – Charles Oatley, British electrical engineer (d. 1996)
1904 – Hertta Kuusinen, Finnish communist (d. 1974)
1905 – Thelma Ritter, American actress (d. 1969)
1912 – Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (d. 1988)
1913 – Mel Allen, American sports reporter (d. 1996)
1913 – Woody Hayes, American college football coach (d. 1987)
1913 – Jimmy Hoffa, American labor union leader (presumed d. 1975)
1913 – James Pike, American Episcopal bishop (d. 1969)
1914 – Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (d. 2007)
1916 – Marcel Bigeard, French general (d. 2010)
1916 – Sally Gray, English actress (d. 2006)
1916 – Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director (d. 1996)
1916 – Edward Platt, American actor (d. 1974)
1917 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician, Nobel Prize Laureate
1920 – Judith Holzmeister, Austrian actress (d. 2008)
1921 – Hugh Downs, American television host
1921 – Hazel McCallion, Canadian politician and 3rd mayor of Mississauga, Ontario
1922 – Murray the K, American impresario and disk jockey (d. 1982)
1927 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (d. 2007)
1929 – Vic Morrow, American actor (d. 1982)
1931 – Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player (d. 2006)
1931 – Brian Kelly, American actor (d. 2005)
1931 – Phyllis McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
1932 – Alexander Kluge, German actor and film director
1933 – Madhubala, Indian actress (d. 1969)
1934 – Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor
1934 – Neil Davis, Australian cameraman (d. 1985)
1934 – Florence Henderson, American actress
1936 – Fanne Foxe, Argentine dancer and Wilbur Mills scandal figure
1937 – Magic Sam, American blues musician (d. 1969)
1936 – Andrew Prine, American actor
1939 – Eugene Fama, American economist
1941 – Donna Shalala, American educator
1941 – Paul Tsongas, American politician (d. 1997)
1942 – Michael Bloomberg, American media mogul and politician
1942 – Andrew Robinson, American actor
1942 – Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1962)
1943 – Eric Andersen, American singer-songwriter
1943 – Maceo Parker, American musician (P-Funk)
1943 – Aaron Russo, American movie producer (d. 2007)
1944 – Carl Bernstein, American journalist
1944 – Alan Parker, British film director and writer
1944 – Ronnie Peterson, Swedish racing driver (d. 1978)
1945 – Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
1946 – Bernard Dowiyogo, Nauru politician (d. 2003)
1946 – Gregory Hines, American dancer and actor (d. 2003)
1947 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1975)
1947 – Judd Gregg, American politician
1948 – Pat O'Brien, American sportscaster and television host
1948 – Teller, American magician (Penn and Teller)
1950 – Roger Fisher, American musician (Heart)
1951 – Kevin Keegan, English footballer
1951 – JoJo Starbuck, American ice skater
1952 – Nancy Keenan, American reproductive-rights advocate
1953 – Odds Bodkin, American storyteller
1955 – Ronald Desruelles, Belgian athlete
1955 – James Eckhouse, American actor
1955 – Carol Kalish, American publishing executive (d. 1991)
1955 – Rip Rogers, American professional wrestler
1957 – Alan Hunter, American TV personality
1957 – Soile Isokoski, Finnish soprano
1958 – Enrique Mansilla, Argentine racing driver
1958 – Grant Thomas, Australian rules footballer
1959 – Renée Fleming, American soprano
1960 – Jim Kelly, American football player
1960 – Meg Tilly, American actress
1961 – Phillip Hamilton, American author
1961 – Latifa, Tunisian singer
1962 – Kevyn Aucoin, American cosmetologist (d. 2002)
1962 – Michael Higgs, English actor
1962 – Sakina Jaffrey, Indian actress
1962 – Philippe Sella, French rugby player
1963 – Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor
1963 – John Marzano, American baseball player
1964 – Gianni Bugno, Italian cyclist
1964 – Zach Galligan, American actor
1966 – Petr Svoboda, Czech ice hockey player
1967 – Stelios Haji-Ioannou, British entrepreneur
1967 – Manuela Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
1967 – Mark Rutte, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1968 – Jules Asner, American television personality
1968 – Scott McClellan, American civil servant and 25th White House Press Secretary
1969 – Adriana Behar, Brazilian beach volleyball player
1969 – Harry Colon, American football player
1970 – Giuseppe Guerini, Italian cyclist
1970 – Simon Pegg, British comedian and actor
1971 – Kris Aquino, Filipino Actress and TV Host
1971 – Tommy Dreamer, American professional wrestler
1971 – Gheorghe Muresan, Romanian basketball player
1971 – Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer
1972 – Drew Bledsoe, American football player
1972 – Big Daddy V, American professional wrestler
1972 – Hiroshi, Japanese comedian
1972 – Najwa Nimri, Spanish actress
1972 – Rob Thomas, American musician (Matchbox Twenty)
1973 – Tyus Edney, American basketball player
1973 – Steve McNair, American football player (d. 2009)
1973 – Yuka Sato, Japanese figure skater
1974 – Filippa Giordano, Italian singer
1974 – Philippe Léonard, Belgian footballer
1975 – Scott Owen, Australian musician (The Living End)
1975 – Yul Kwon, American reality television personality
1976 – Erica Leerhsen, American actress
1975 – Xie Hui, Chinese footballer
1975 – Malik Zidi, French actor
1976 – Liv Kristine, Norwegian singer (Leaves' Eyes)
1977 – Darren Bennett, British professional ballroom dancer
1977 – Donna Cruz, Filipina Actress and Singer
1977 – Cadel Evans, Australian cyclist
1977 – Darren Purse, English footballer
1977 – Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (d. 2007)
1978 – Dean Gaffney, British actor
1978 – Richard Hamilton, American basketball player
1978 – Darius Songaila, Lithuanian basketball player
1978 – Dwele, American R&B/Soul singer
1979 – Paolo Ginestra, Italian footballer
1979 – Pablo Pallante, Uruguayan footballer
1980 – Fátima Leyva, Mexican footballer
1980 – Josh Senter, American screenwriter
1980 – Michelle Ye, Hong Kong actress
1981 – Randy de Puniet, French motorcycle racer
1981 – Erin Torpey, American actress and singer
1982 – Marián Gáborík, Slovak hockey player
1982 – John Halls, English footballer
1983 – Callix Crabbe, US Virgin Islander baseball player
1983 – Rocky Elsom, Australian rugby player
1983 – Rhydian Roberts, Welsh singer and reality show contestant
1983 – Bacary Sagna, French footballer
1984 – Hamed Namouchi, Tunisian footballer
1985 – Karima Adebibe, Moroccan-born British actress and model
1985 – Tyler Clippard, American baseball player
1985 – Heart Evangelista, Filipino singer and actress
1985 – John Prats, Filipino Actor and Dancer
1985 – Natsume Sano, Japanese gravure idol
1985 – Philippe Senderos, Swiss footballer
1985 – Miki Yeung, Hong Kong singer and actress
1986 – Michael Ammermüller, German racing driver
1986 – Roxanne Guinoo, Filipina actress
1986 – Markus Karl, German footballer
1986 – Oliver Lee, British actor
1986 – Gao Lin, Chinese footballer
1986 – Kang Min-Soo, South Korean footballer
1986 – Tiffany Thornton, American actress
1986 – Aschwin Wildeboer, Spanish swimmer
1987 – Edinson Cavani Uruguayan footballer
1987 – Joseph Pichler, American actor
1987 – Julia Savicheva, Russian singer
1987 – Fabian Schönheim, German footballer
1987 – David Wheater, English footballer
1988 – Katie Boland, Canadian actress
1988 – Ángel di María, Argentine footballer
1988 – Quentin Mosimann, Swiss singer and reality show contestant
1988 – Asia Nitollano, American dancer and reality show contestant
1989 – Néstor Calderón, Mexican footballer
1989 – Adam Matuszczyk, Polish footballer
1989 – Emma Miskew, Canadian curler
1989 – Brandon Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 – Freddie Highmore, English actor
1994 – Paul Butcher, Jr., American actor

[edit] Deaths

270 – St. Valentine marking Valentines Day
869 – Saint Cyril, Greek monk, scholar, theologian and linguist (b. 827)
1229 – Raghnall mac Gofraidh, King of Mann and the Isles.
1317 – Marguerite of France, queen of Edward I of England (b. 1282)
1400 – King Richard II of England (murdered) (b. 1367)
1405 – Timur, Mongol conqueror (b. 1336)
1571 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (b. 1517)
1676 – Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist
1714 – Maria Luisa of Savoy, Queen Consort of Spain (b. 1688)
1737 – Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685)
1744 – John Hadley, inventor (b. 1682)
1779 – James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (b. 1728)
1780 – William Blackstone, English jurist (b. 1723)
1782 – Singu Min, King of Burma (b. 1756)
1808 – John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)
1831 – Vicente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero (b. 1782)
1831 – Henry Maudslay, English inventor (b. 1771)
1870 – St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General (b. 1815)
1881 – Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (b. 1812)
1885 – Jules Vallès, French writer (b. 1832)
1891 – William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War General (b. 1820)
1894 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (b. 1814)
1922 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (assassinated) (b. 1880)
1929 – Thomas Burke, American sprinter (b. 1875)
1942 – Adnan Bin Saidi, Officer of the Malay Regiment killed in the defense of Singapore (b. 1915)
1943 – Dora Gerson, German actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (b. 1899)
1943 – David Hilbert, German mathematician (b. 1862)
1948 – Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (b. 1876)
1949 – Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
1950 – Karl Guthe Jansky, American Discoverer of cosmic radio waves (b. 1905)
1952 – Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (b. 1896)
1958 – Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (b. 1899)
1959 – Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (b. 1898)
1967 – Sig Ruman, German-American actor (b. 1884)
1969 – Vito Genovese, American gangster (b. 1897)
1970 – Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (b. 1880).
1974 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1903)
1975 – Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)
1975 – P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)
1978 – Paul Governali, American football player (b. 1921)
1979 – Adolph Dubs, American diplomat (b. 1920)
1980 – Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor (b. 1926)
1983 – Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
1986 – Edmund Rubbra, English Composer (b. 1901)
1987 – Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b. 1904)
1987 – Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (b. 1908)
1988 – Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (b. 1901)
1989 – James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
1990 – Tony Holiday, German singer (b. 1951)
1994 – Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936)
1994 – Christopher Lasch, American historian and social critic (b. 1932)
1994 – Rodney Orr American racing driver (b. 1962)
1995 – U Nu, Burmese politician (b. 1907)
1995 – Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (b. 1923)
1996 – Bob Paisley, English football manager (b. 1919)
1999 – John Ehrlichman, American presidential advisor (b. 1925)
1999 – Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
2002 – Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
2003 – Dolly, first cloned mammal (b. 1996)
2003 – Johnny Longden, English jockey (b. 1907)
2004 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
2005 – Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, Greek novelist and journalist (b. 1920)
2005 – Rafic Hariri, Lebanese businessman and politician (b. 1944)
2005 – Najai Turpin, American boxer (b. 1981)
2006 – Darry Cowl, French musician and actor (b. 1925)
2006 – Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
2006 – Lynden David Hall, British singer (b. 1974)
2007 – Ryan Larkin, Canadian animated filmmaker (b. 1943)
2007 – Gareth Morris, British flautist (b. 1920)
2009 – Sir Bernard Ashley, Welsh businessman (b. 1926)
2009 – Louie Bellson, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
2009 – John McGlinn, American conductor (b. 1953)
2010 – Doug Fieger, American musician The Knack (b. 1952)
2010 – Dick Francis, British jockey-turned-novelist (b. 1920)
2011 – Sir George Shearing, Anglo-American jazz pianist (b. 1919)

[bastet]

:yikes: lol!
wow harmony!!
..busy day!

[SeanC.N.]

i read every one of those. lmao

[Poets Muse]

Events



1481 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1481) – The largest of three earthquakes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1481_Rhodes_earthquake) strikes the island of Rhodes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes) and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
1491 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491) – Kongo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kongo) monarch Nkuwu Nzinga (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nkuwu_Nzinga) is baptised by Portuguese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Empire) missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_I_of_Kongo).
1715 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1715) – "Edmund Halley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Halley)'s" total solar eclipse (the last one visible in London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London), United Kingdom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom) for almost 900 years).
1791 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1791) – The Constitution of May 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_May_3,_1791) (the first modern constitution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution) in Europe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe)) is proclaimed by the Sejm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejm) of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth).
1802 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1802) – Washington, D.C. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.) is incorporated as a city.
1808 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1808) – Finnish War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_War): Sweden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden) loses the fortress of Sveaborg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveaborg) to Russia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia).
1808 – Peninsular War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War): The Madrid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid) rebels who rose up on May 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2) are executed near Príncipe Pío (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%ADncipe_P%C3%ADo) hill.
1811 – In the first day of fighting at the Peninsular War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War) Battle of Fuentes de Onoro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fuentes_de_Onoro) frontal assults by the French army, under Marshall Massena (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massena), fail to take the town of Fuentes de Onoro, defended by the Anglo-Portugese army commended by the Duke of Wellington (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Wellington).
1815 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815) – Neapolitan War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neapolitan_War): Joachim Murat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Murat), King of Naples (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Naples) is defeated by the Austrians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria) at the Battle of Tolentino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tolentino), the decisive engagement of the war.
1830 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1830) – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury_and_Whitstable_Railway) is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
1837 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1837) – The University of Athens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_and_Kapodistrian_University_of_Athens) is founded.
1849 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1849) – The May Uprising in Dresden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Uprising_in_Dresden) begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolutions_of_1848_in_the_German_states).
1860 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860) – Charles XV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XV_of_Sweden) of Sweden-Norway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden-Norway) is crowned king of Sweden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden).
1867 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1867) – The Hudson's Bay Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company) gives up all claims to Vancouver Island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Island).
1877 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877) – Labatt Park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labatt_Park), the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
1901 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901) – The Great Fire of 1901 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1901) begins in Jacksonville, Florida (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida).
1913 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913) – Raja Harishchandra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Harishchandra) the first full-length Indian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India) feature film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_film) is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_India).
1915 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915) – The poem In Flanders Fields (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields) is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCrae).
1916 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916) – The leaders of the Easter Rising (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising) are executed in Dublin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin).
1920 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920) – A Bolshevik coup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Georgian_coup_attempt) fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Georgia).
1921 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921) – West Virginia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia) imposes the first state sales tax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_tax).

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The Third of May 1808 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_of_May_1808) by Francisco Goya (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya) (referring to the event in 1808)




1924 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924) – Aleph Zadik Aleph (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_Zadik_Aleph) is formed in Omaha, Nebraska (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha,_Nebraska)
1928 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928) – Japanese atrocities in Jinan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinan_Incident), China (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China).
1933 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933) – Nellie Tayloe Ross (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Tayloe_Ross) becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Mint).
1937 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937) – Gone with the Wind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind), a novel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel) by Margaret Mitchell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mitchell), wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction).
1939 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939) – The All India Forward Bloc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Forward_Bloc) is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhash_Chandra_Bose).
1942 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942) – World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II): Japanese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan) naval troops invade Tulagi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Tulagi_%28May_1942%29) Island in the Solomon Islands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands) during the first part of Operation Mo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mo) that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea) between Japanese forces and forces from the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) and Australia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia).
1945 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945) – World War II: Sinking of the prison ships (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_ship) Cap Arcona (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_Arcona), Thielbek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thielbek) and Deutschland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland_IV_%28liner%29) by the Royal Air Force (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force) in Lübeck Bay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCbeck_Bay).
1947 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947) – New post-war Japanese constitution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Japan) goes into effect.
1948 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948) – The U.S. Supreme Court (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court) rules (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_v._Kraemer) that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate) to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
1951 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951) – London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London)'s Royal Festival Hall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Festival_Hall) opens with the Festival of Britain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_of_Britain)
1951 – The United States Senate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate) Armed Services (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Armed_Services) and Foreign Relations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Foreign_Relation s) Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General) Douglas MacArthur (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur) by U.S. President (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States) Harry Truman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Truman).
1951 – The Kentucky Derby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Derby) is televised for the first time.
1952 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952) – Lieutenant Colonels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Colonel) Joseph O. Fletcher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_O._Fletcher) and William P. Benedict (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Benedict) of the United States land a plane at the North Pole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole).
1957 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957) – Walter O'Malley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_O%27Malley), the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers), agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn,_New_York), to Los Angeles, California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California).
1960 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960) – The Off-Broadway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-Broadway) musical comedy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_comedy), The Fantasticks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantasticks), opens in New York City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City)'s Greenwich Village (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village), eventually becoming the longest-running musical (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre) of all time.
1960 – The Anne Frank House (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank_House) opens in Amsterdam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam), Netherlands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands).
1963 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963) – The police force in Birmingham, Alabama (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham,_Alabama) switches tactics and responds with violent force (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_campaign#Fire_hoses_and_police_dogs) to stop the "Birmingham campaign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_campaign)" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing newfound attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_%281955%E2%80%93196 8%29).
1973 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973) – The Sears Tower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Tower) in Chicago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago) is topped out as the world's tallest building (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_tallest_building).
1978 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978) – The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail) (which would later become known as "spam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29)") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation) marketing representative to every ARPANET (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET) address on the west coast of the United States.
1986 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986) – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombo) airport in Sri Lanka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka).
1987 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987) – A crash by Bobby Allison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Allison) at the Talladega Superspeedway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talladega_Superspeedway), Alabama (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama) fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR) to develop restrictor plate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictor_plate) racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytona_International_Speedway) and Talladega.
1999 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999) – The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City,_Oklahoma) is devastated by an F5 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujita_scale) tornado killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Oklahoma_tornado_outbreak). This is the strongest tornado ever recorded with wind speeds of up to 318 mph.
2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000) – The sport of geocaching (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching) begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System) posted on Usenet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet).
2001 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001) – The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.N._Human_Rights_Commission) for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947).
2002 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002) – A military MiG-21 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG-21) aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajasthan) in India (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India), killing eight.
2003 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003) – New Hampshire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire)'s famous Old Man of the Mountain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Mountain) collapses.
2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006) – Armavia Flight 967 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armavia_Flight_967) crashes into the Black Sea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea), killing 113 people on board, with no survivors.
2006 – Zacarias Moussaoui (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacarias_Moussaoui) is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,_Virginia).

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612 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/612) – Constantine III (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_III_%28Byzantine_emperor%29), Byzantine Emperor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Emperor) (d. 641)
1415 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1415) – Cecily Neville (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecily_Neville), mother of Edward IV of England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_IV_of_England) and Richard III of England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England) (d. 1495)
1428 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1428) – Pedro González de Mendoza (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Gonz%C3%A1lez_de_Mendoza), Spanish cardinal and statesman (d. 1495)
1446 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1446) – Margaret of York (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_York), wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I,_Duke_of_Burgundy) (d. 1503)
1469 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1469) – Niccolò Machiavelli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli), Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
1662 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1662) – Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matth%C3%A4us_Daniel_P%C3%B6ppelmann), German architect (d. 1736)
1695 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1695) – Henri Pitot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Pitot), Italian-born French engineer (d. 1771)
1713 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1713) – Alexis Claude de Clairaut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Clairaut), French mathematician (d. 1765)
1761 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1761) – August von Kotzebue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Friedrich_Ferdinand_von_Kotzebue), German dramatist (d. 1819)
1764 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1764) – Elisabeth of France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth_de_France), sister of Louis XVI (d. 1794)
1768 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1768) – Charles Tennant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Tennant), Scottish chemist and industrialist (d. 1838)
1814 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1814) – Sir Adams George Archibald (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Adams_George_Archibald), Canadian Father of the Confederation (d. 1892)
1826 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1826) – Charles, Crown Prince (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XV_of_Sweden) of Sweden-Norway (d. 1872)
1835 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1835) – Alfred Austin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Austin), English poet (d. 1913)
1844 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1844) – Richard D'Oyly Carte (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D%27Oyly_Carte), English theatrical impresario (d. 1901)
1849 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1849) – Bernhard von Bülow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_von_B%C3%BClow), Chancellor of Germany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_Germany_%28German_Reich%29) (d. 1929)
1849 – Jacob August Riis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_August_Riis), American journalist (d. 1914)
1857 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1857) – George Gore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gore), American baseball player (d. 1933)
1859 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1859) – Andy Adams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Adams_%28writer%29), American author (d. 1935)
1860 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860) – John Scott Haldane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scott_Haldane), Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
1860 – Vito Volterra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Volterra), Italian mathematician (d. 1940)
1861 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1861) – Emmett Dalton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Dalton), American outlaw (d. 1937)
1867 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1867) – J.T. Hearne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hearne_%28John_Thomas_Hearne%29), English cricketer (d. 1944)
1870 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1870) – Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Helena_Victoria_of_Schleswig-Holstein) (d. 1948)
1873 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1873) – Pavlo Skoropadsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlo_Skoropadsky), Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
1874 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1874) – François Coty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Coty), French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934)
1874 – V. Walfrid Ekman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._Walfrid_Ekman), Swedish oceanographer (d. 1954)
1877 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877) – Karl Abraham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Abraham), German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
1879 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1879) – Fergus McMaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergus_McMaster), Australian businessman (d. 1950)
1886 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886) – Marcel Dupré (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Dupr%C3%A9), French organist and composer (d. 1971)
1887 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1887) – Marika Kotopouli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marika_Kotopouli), Greek actress (d. 1954)
1888 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1888) – Beulah Bondi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beulah_Bondi), American actress (d. 1981)
1891 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891) – Tadeusz Peiper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Peiper), Polish poet (d. 1969)
1892 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892) – George Paget Thomson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Paget_Thomson), English physicist, Nobel Prize (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics) laureate (d. 1975)
1892 – Jacob Viner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Viner), Canadian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada) economist (d. 1970)
1893 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1893) – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantine_Gamsakhurdia), Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975)
1895 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1895) – Cornelius Van Til (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Van_Til), philosopher and Christian apologist (d. 1987)
1896 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896) – Karl Allmenroder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Allmenroder), German World War I Flying ace (d. 1917)
1896 – Dodie Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodie_Smith), English novelist and playwright (d. 1990)
1898 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1898) – Septima Poinsette Clark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septima_Poinsette_Clark), American educator and civil rights activist (d. 1987)
1898 – Golda Meir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda_Meir), Prime Minister of Israel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Israel) (d. 1978)
1901 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901) – Gino Cervi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Cervi), Italian actor (d. 1974)
1902 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902) – Alfred Kastler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kastler), French physicist, Nobel Prize (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize) laureate (d. 1984)
1903 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903) – Bing Crosby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Crosby), American singer and actor (d. 1977)
1905 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905) – Werner Fenchel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Fenchel), German mathematician (d. 1988)
1906 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906) – Mary Astor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Astor), Academy Award (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award)-winning American actress (d. 1987)
1906 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Roosevelt_Halsted), American radio personality, daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (d. 1975)
1907 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907) – Dorothy Young (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Young), American entertainer (d. 2011)
1910 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910) – Norman Corwin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Corwin), American radio pioneer
1912 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912) – Virgil Fox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Fox), American organist (d. 1980)
1913 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913) – William Inge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Inge), American playwright (d. 1973)
1915 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915) – Stu Hart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stu_Hart), Canadian professional wrestler and trainer (d. 2003)
1916 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916) – Léopold Simoneau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9opold_Simoneau), French Canadian tenor (d. 2006)
1917 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917) – Betty Comden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Comden), American lyricist (d. 2006)
1918 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918) – Ted Bates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bates_%28footballer%29), English former footballer (d. 2003)
1919 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919) – John Cullen Murphy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cullen_Murphy), American comic strip artist (d. 2004)
1919 – Pete Seeger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger), American singer
1920 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920) – John Lewis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_%28pianist%29), American jazz pianist and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Jazz_Quartet)) (d. 2001)
1921 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921) – Joe Ames (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ames), American singer (d. 2007)
1921 – Sugar Ray Robinson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Ray_Robinson), American boxer (d. 1989)
1922 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922) – Len Shackleton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Shackleton), English former footballer (d. 2000)
1923 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923) – George Hadjinikos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hadjinikos), Greek pianist and conductor
1923 – Ralph Hall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Hall), American politician
1924 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924) – Yehuda Amichai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Amichai), Israeli poet (d. 2000)
1924 – Ken Tyrrell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Tyrrell), English founder of eponymous F1 racing team (d. 2001)
1925 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925) – Jean Séguy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_S%C3%A9guy), French sociologist of religions (d. 2007)
1928 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928) – Dave Dudley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Dudley), American singer (d. 2003)
1932 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932) – Robert Osborne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Osborne), American film historian
1933 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933) – James Brown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brown), American singer and dancer (d. 2006)
1933 – Alex Cord (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Cord), American actor
1933 – Steven Weinberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Weinberg), American physicist, Nobel laureate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics)
1934 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934) – Henry Cooper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cooper), English boxer (d. 2011)
1934 – Georges Moustaki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Moustaki), Egyptian born Greek-French singer and songwriter
1934 – Frankie Valli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Valli), American singer (The Four Seasons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_%28group%29))
1935 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935) – Ron Popeil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Popeil), American inventor
1937 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937) – Nélida Piñon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9lida_Pi%C3%B1on), Brazilian writer
1938 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938) – Chris Cannizzaro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Cannizzaro), American baseball player
1938 – Omar Abdel-Rahman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Abdel-Rahman), Egyptian Islamist terrorist
1940 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940) – David Koch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Koch), American businessman, politician
1940 – Konrad "Conny" Plank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conny_Plank), German record producer and musician
1940 – Clemens Westerhof (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemens_Westerhof), Dutch football manager
1941 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941) – Edward "Monk" Malloy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_%22Monk%22_Malloy), American university president
1942 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942) – Věra Čáslavská (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C4%9Bra_%C4%8C%C3%A1slavsk%C3%A1), Czech gymnast
1942 – Dave Marash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Marash), American journalist
1942 – C.L. Otter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.L._Otter), American politician, governor of Idaho
1943 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943) – Jim Risch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Risch), American politician, junior senator of Idaho
1945 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945) – Davey Lopes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davey_Lopes), American baseball player and coach
1946 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946) – Norm Chow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Chow), American football coach
1946 – Silvino Francisco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvino_Francisco), South African snooker player
1946 – Greg Gumbel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Gumbel), American broadcaster
1948 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948) – Chris Mulkey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Mulkey), American actor
1947 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947) – Doug Henning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Henning), Canadian magician (d. 2000)
1949 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949) – Ken Hom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Hom), Chinese American chef
1949 – Ron Wyden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Wyden), American politician, senior senator of Oregon
1950 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950) – Mary Hopkin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hopkin), Welsh Singer
1951 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951) – Christopher Cross (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Cross), American musician
1951 – Tatyana Tolstaya (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatyana_Tolstaya), Russian writer
1952 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952) – Chuck Baldwin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Baldwin), American political figure
1952 – Caitlin Clarke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin_Clarke). American actress (d. 2004)
1952 – Allan Wells (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Wells), British athlete
1953 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953) – Gary Young (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Young_%28drummer%29), American drummer (Pavement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavement_%28band%29))
1955 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955) – David Hookes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hookes), Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
1956 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956) – Marc Bellemare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bellemare), French Canadian lawyer and politician
1957 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957) – Rod Langway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Langway), American ice hockey player
1958 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958) – Kevin Kilner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Kilner), American actor
1958 – Susanna Kwan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Kwan), Hong Kong singer
1958 – Sandi Toksvig (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandi_Toksvig), Danish born writer and broadcaster
1959 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959) – David Ball (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ball_%28musician%29), English musician (Soft Cell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_Cell))
1959 – Uma Bharati (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uma_Bharati), Indian politician
1959 – Ben Elton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Elton), British comedian and author
1960 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960) – Amy Steel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Steel), American actress
1961 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961) – Steve McClaren (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McClaren), English football manager
1961 – Joe Murray (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Murray_%28animator%29), American cartoonist
1961 – David Vitter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Vitter), American politician
1962 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962) – Anders Graneheim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Graneheim), Swedish bodybuilder
1963 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963) – Jeff Hornacek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hornacek), American basketball player
1963 – Jamie Reeves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Reeves), British strongman
1964 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964) – Ron Hextall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Hextall), Canadian ice hockey player
1965 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965) – Rob Brydon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Brydon), Welsh comedian
1965 – Nina Garcia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Garcia), Colombian-American fashion expert and television personality
1965 – John Jensen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jensen), Danish footballer
1965 – Mikhail Prokhorov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Prokhorov), Russian self-made businessman
1966 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966) – Peter Abbay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Abbay), American actor
1966 – Giorgos Agorogiannis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgos_Agorogiannis), Greek footballer
1966 – Firdous Bamji (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firdous_Bamji), Indian-American actor
1966 – Frank Dietrich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Dietrich_%28politician%29), German politician (d. 2011)
1966 – Darren Morgan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Morgan), Welsh snooker player
1967 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967) – André Olbrich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Olbrich), German guitarist and composer (Blind Guardian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Guardian))
1968 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968) – Shane Minor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Minor), American singer
1969 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969) – Daryl F. Mallett (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_F._Mallett), American writer/editor
1970 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970) – Bobby Cannavale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Cannavale), American actor
1970 – Jeffrey Sebelia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sebelia), American fashion designer
1971 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971) – Damon Dash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Dash), American label executive
1971 – Josey Scott (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josey_Scott), American singer (Saliva (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saliva_%28band%29))
1972 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972) – Shonie Carter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shonie_Carter), American MMA fighter
1973 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973) – Rea Garvey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rea_Garvey), Irish musician
1973 – Brad Martin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Martin), American musician
1974 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974) – Princess Haya bint Hussein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haya_bint_Hussein) of Jordan
1974 – Peter Everitt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Everitt), Australian football player
1975 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975) – Willie Geist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Geist), American television personality
1975 – Christina Hendricks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Hendricks), American actress
1975 – Dulé Hill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dul%C3%A9_Hill), American actor
1975 – Valentino Lanús (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentino_Lan%C3%BAs), Mexican actor
1975 – Maksim Mrvica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Mrvica), Croatian pianist
1976 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976) – Jeff Halpern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Halpern), American ice hockey player
1976 – Brad Scott (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Scott_%28Australian_rules_footballer%29), Australian rules footballer and coach
1977 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977) – Ryan Dempster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Dempster), American baseball player
1977 – Mashima Hiro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashima_Hiro), Japanese manga artist of Rave Master (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rave_Master) and Fairy Tail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Tail)
1977 – Tyronn Lue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyronn_Lue), American basketball player
1978 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978) – Paul Banks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Banks), American vocalist (Interpol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol_%28band%29))
1978 – Autumn Phillips (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_Phillips), member of the British royal family
1978 – Lawrence Tynes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Tynes), American football player
1979 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979) – Steve Mack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mack), American professional wrestler
1980 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980) – Jaycee Dugard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaycee_Dugard), American kindnapping victim
1980 – Zuzana Ondrášková (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuzana_Ondr%C3%A1%C5%A1kov%C3%A1), Czech tennis player
1980 – Marcel Vigneron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Vigneron), American chef (Top Chef (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Chef))
1981 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981) – Farrah Franklin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Franklin), American singer (former member of Destiny's Child (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny%27s_Child))
1981 – U;Nee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U;Nee), South Korean singer and actress (d. 2007)
1982 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982) – Igor Olshansky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Olshansky), Ukrainian-born American football player
1983 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983) – Joseph Addai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Addai), American football player
1983 – Romeo Castelen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_Castelen), Dutch footballer
1983 – Myriam Fares (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriam_Fares), Lebanese singer
1983 – Márton Fülöp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rton_F%C3%BCl%C3%B6p), Hungarian footballer
1984 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984) – Cheryl Burke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Burke), American dancer
1987 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987) – Lina Grinčikaitė (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Grin%C4%8Dikait%C4%97), Lithuanian sprinter
1990 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990) – Miranda Chartrand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Chartrand), Canadian singer
1990 – Levi Johnston (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Johnston), American actor and model; former fiancé of Bristol Palin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Palin)

[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=May_3&action=edit&section=3)] Deaths



1152 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1152) – Matilda of Boulogne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Boulogne), Queen of England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_consort) (b. 1105)
1160 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1160) – Peter Lombard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lombard), Italian scholar and bishop (b. c. 1100)
1270 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1270) – King Béla IV of Hungary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_IV_of_Hungary) (b. 1206)
1294 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1294) – John I, Duke of Brabant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_I,_Duke_of_Brabant) (b. 1252)
1481 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1481) – Mehmed II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmed_II), Ottoman Sultan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Sultan) (b. 1432)
1598 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1598) – Anna Guarini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Guarini), Italian singer (b. 1563)
1606 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1606) – Henry Garnet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Garnet), English Jesuit (b. 1555)
1616 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1616) – William Shakespeare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare), English writer and actor (b. 1564) (his death is commonly accepted to be on April 23 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_23#Deaths), according to the Julian calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar))
1622 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1622) – Pedro Páez (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_P%C3%A1ez), Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1564)
1679 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1679) – James Sharp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sharp_%28bishop%29), Scottish archbishop (b. 1613)
1693 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1693) – Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_de_Rouvroy,_duc_de_Saint-Simon), French courtier (b. 1607)
1704 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1704) – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Ignaz_Franz_Biber), Bohemian composer (b. 1644)
1724 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1724) – John Leverett the Younger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Leverett_the_Younger), American President of Harvard (b. 1662)
1750 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1750) – John Willison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Willison), Scottish minister and writer (b. 1680)
1752 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1752) – Samuel Ogle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Ogle), British provincial Governor of Maryland (b. c. 1692)
1758 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1758) – Pope Benedict XIV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XIV) (b. 1675)
1763 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1763) – George Psalmanazar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Psalmanazar), British impostor (b. 1679)
1764 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1764) – Francesco Algarotti (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Algarotti), Italian philosopher (b. 1712)
1779 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1779) – John Winthrop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Winthrop_%281714-1779%29), American astronomer (b. 1714)
1793 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1793) – Martin Gerbert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gerbert), German theologian and historian (b. 1720)
1839 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1839) – Ferdinando Paer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinando_Paer), Italian composer (b. 1771)
1856 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1856) – Adolphe Charles Adam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Charles_Adam), French composer (b. 1803)
1910 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910) – Howard Taylor Ricketts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Taylor_Ricketts), American bacteriologist. (b. 1871)
1916 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916) – Leaders of the Easter Rising (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising)

Tom Clarke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clarke_%28Irish_republican%29), Irish Nationalist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Nationalist), Leader and Organiser of the Easter Rising (b. 1858)
Thomas MacDonagh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_MacDonagh), Irish Nationalist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Nationalist) and Leader of the Easter Rising (b. 1878)
Patrick Pearse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Pearse), Irish Nationalist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Nationalist) and Leader of the Easter Rising (b. 1879)


1918 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918) – Charlie Soong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Soong), Christian missionary
1921 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921) – Théodore Pilette (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Pilette), Belgian racing driver (b. 1883)
1942 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942) – Thorvald Stauning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorvald_Stauning), Prime Minister of Denmark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Denmark) (b. 1873)
1958 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958) – Frank Foster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foster_%28cricketer%29), English cricketer (b. 1889)
1969 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969) – Zakir Hussain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakir_Hussain_%28politician%29), 3rd President of India (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_India), (b. 1897)
1972 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972) – Bruce Cabot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Cabot), American film actor (b. 1904)
1972 – Leslie Harvey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Harvey), Scottish guitar player for Stone the Crows (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_the_Crows) (b. 1944)
1978 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978) – Bill Downs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Downs), American broadcast journalist (b. 1914)
1987 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987) – Dalida (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalida), French singer (b. 1933)
1988 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988) – Lev Semenovich Pontryagin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Semenovich_Pontryagin), Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
1989 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989) – Christine Jorgensen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Jorgensen), American transsexual (b. 1926)
1989 – Edward Ochab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Ochab), Polish Communist politician (b. 1906)
1991 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991) – Jerzy Kosiński (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kosi%C5%84ski), Polish-born writer (b. 1933)
1991 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Abdel_Wahab), Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1907)
1992 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992) – George Murphy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Murphy), American dancer, actor and politician (b. 1902)
1996 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996) – Dimitri Fampas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Fampas), Greek guitarist (b. 1921)
1996 – Alex Kellner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kellner), American baseball player (b. 1924)
1996 – Jack Weston (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Weston), American actor (b. 1924)
1997 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997) – Sébastien Enjolras (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Enjolras), French racing driver (b. 1976)
1997 – Narciso Yepes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narciso_Yepes), Spanish classical guitarist (b. 1927)
1999 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999) – Joe Adcock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Adcock), American baseball player (b. 1927)
1999 – Steve Chiasson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Chiasson), Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
1999 – Godfrey Evans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Evans), English cricketer (b. 1920)
2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000) – Julia Bathory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Bathory), Hungarian glass-designer (b. 1901)
2000 – John Joseph O'Connor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joseph_O%27Connor), Cardinal Archbishop of New York (b. 1920)
2001 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001) – Billy Higgins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Higgins), American drummer (b. 1936)
2002 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002) – Barbara Castle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Castle), British politician (b. 1910)
2002 – Evgeny Svetlanov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Svetlanov), Russian composer and pianist (b. 1928)
2003 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003) – Suzy Parker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzy_Parker), American actress (b. 1932)
2004 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004) – Anthony Ainley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Ainley), British actor (b. 1932)
2004 – Ken Downing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Downing), British racing driver (b. 1917)
2004 – Darrell Johnson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Johnson), American baseball player (b. 1928)
2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006) – Karel Appel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Appel), Dutch painter (b. 1921)
2006 – Pramod Mahajan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pramod_Mahajan), Indian politician (b. 1949)
2006 – Earl Woods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Woods), athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
2007 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007) – Warja Honegger-Lavater (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warja_Honegger-Lavater), Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)
2007 – Wally Schirra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Schirra), American astronaut (b. 1923)
2007 – Knock Yokoyama (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock_Yokoyama), Japanese comedian and politician (b. 1932)
2008 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008) – Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldo_Calvo_Sotelo), Spanish former Prime Minister (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Spain) (b. 1926)
2009 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009) – Ton Lutz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton_Lutz), Dutch actor (b. 1919)
2009 – Ram Shewalkar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Shewalkar), Indian Marathi writer (b. 1931)
2010 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010) – Roy Carrier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Carrier), American Zydeco musician (b. 1947)
2010 – Guenter Wendt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guenter_Wendt), German-American engineer (b. 1923)
2011 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011) – Thanasis Veggos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanasis_Veggos), Greek actor (b. 1927)
2011 – Jackie Cooper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Cooper), American actor (b. 1922)
2011 – Sergo Kotrikadze (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergo_Kotrikadze), Georgian footballer (b. 1936)

[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=May_3&action=edit&section=4)] Holidays and observances



Christian Feast Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_Day):

Abhai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhai_%28saint%29) (Syriac Orthodox Church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Orthodox_Church))
Antonia and Alexander (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonia_and_Alexander)
Juvenal of Narni (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenal_of_Narni)
Philip (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_the_Apostle) and James the Less (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Apostle_James_the_Lesser)
Pope Alexander I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_I)
Sarah the Martyr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_the_Martyr) (Coptic Church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Orthodox_Church_of_Alexandria))
Moura (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Moura) (Coptic Church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Orthodox_Church_of_Alexandria))
Theodosius of Kiev (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_of_Kiev) (Eastern Orthodox Church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church))
May 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_3_%28Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics%29)


Constitution Memorial Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Memorial_Day) (Japan)
Constitution Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Poland) (Poland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland))
Earliest day on which Teacher's Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher%27s_Day) can fall, while May 9 is the latest; celebrated on the Tuesday of the first full week of May. (United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States))
Roodmas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roodmas), or Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_of_the_Holy_Cross) (Gallican Rite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallican_Rite) of the Catholic Church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church))
World Press Freedom Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Day) (International (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_observance))

[Poets Muse]

my birthday was kinda busy as well but i have to say Darknoir, you win. I mean Einstein's theory of relativity was published. The only person who could beat you would be the person who was born when his theory was found

[YoungLady]

August 8th


1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Hven.
1585 – John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
1647 – The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill – English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
1709 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon
1786 – Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1793 – The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
1794 – Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
1870 – The Republic of Ploieşti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

And many more which I thought would be too much to copy and paste

Births: esther Williams, dustin Hoffman, Bradley Mcintosh, Katie Leung, etc etc


Fun fact (that I just read lol;) )
In mandarin, fathers day is bā bā day, which translates as 8-8, or August 8th. So cool!